महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

Maharana Sāngā.
enjoyed the wealth of kingdoms, neither
spoke bravely nor was their counsel or
deportment such as became men of firmness."
"At length," continues Bābur, "observing
the universal discouragement of my troops
and their total want of spirit I came to a
resolution. Having called a general assembly
of my Amirs and officers, I addressed them :
‘Noblemen and soldiers! Every man that
cometh into this world is subject to dissolu-
tion. When we are passed away and gone
God survives, One and Unchangeable. Who-
ever sits down to the feast of life must,
before it is over, drink of the cup of death.
He who arrives at the inn of mortality, the
world, must one day, without fail, take his
departure from that mansion of sorrow.
How much better then is it to die with
honour than to live with infamy.
‘Give me but fame, and if I die I am contented,
‘If fame be mine, let death claim my body.’
‘The most High God has been propi-
tious to us. He has now placed us in such a
crisis that if we fall in the field we die the
death of martyrs; if we survive, we rise
victorious, the avengers of His sacred cause.
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